Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge
When:
Saturday, Jul 05, 2025 10:00a -
3:00p
Saturday, Jul 05, 2025 10:00a -
3:00p
Where:
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
105 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Good for Groups, History, Kid Friendly, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=27412F86-EA01-B8BE-5DD9CFDA6A02B76A
Explore the people, ideas, and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 250 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free, all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours with J.L. Bell; family activities; talks by historians; living historians portraying George Washington (John Koopman), William Lee (Quinton Castle), and Martha Washington (Sandy Spector); Cambridge Open Archives, a Story Walk, and more.
The house at 105 Brattle Street, now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, self-emancipated families, and soldiers shaped history.
Event schedule: Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge
